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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 811908" data-attributes="member: 130">Who decides which are the very good rules, pray tell? WotC? It's certainly not going to be the desperately non-representative sample of people who post on this message board. There's no reason not to conclude that WotC has decided it's doing just that and no third party publisher has yet produced anything they considered up to snuff, with the exception of two monsters.Sure, I think there's good third party stuff out there. I worship at the altar of Monte with occasional offerings to Bruce Cordell and Sean Reynolds. But neither you nor I make decisions about WotC's product line. I would much rather see WotC producing new content all its own than copying from other publishers. A world with more than one DM is never going to have a growing level of consistancy and portability between campaigns anyway. It's unrealistic, and frankly undesireable.I'm not at all down on d20 pubs (as a large section of shelving would indicate) and I'll even agree that they have at times produced things clearly superior to WotC's stuff...to me, anyway. Psionics in my games are per Mindscapes, not the PsiHB. But that's my choice because alternatives exist in third party material. If the industry decides that this or that is the canonical way to do something, they have no desire to produce alternatives, which means if I want one I'll have to do it myself. The main reason I buy gaming books is because I don't have much in the way of time or inclination to work up whole new rulesets on my own.You guys are coming across like WotC has some kind of deep animus against d20 pubs and it's bending over backwards to screw them over. Fact is those books have finite space and I'd vastly prefer they spent time doing what I pay them money to do, that is make up new material, than just copy someone else's. I feel the same way about all the d20 publishers.</blockquote>

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